Modal Shift

Priority ocean services on the rise as air freight capacity becomes scarce

Soaring airfreight rates have left some commodities on the ground, but expedited ocean services offer an alternative.
To offer a faster maritime link across the Pacific, less-than-container load (LCL) consolidator ECU Worldwide launched an LCL express service between Shanghai and Los Angeles towards the end of last month.
Its Xlerate offering uses Matson Navigation for a 10-day transit between the two ports and ECU claims this is the fastest port-to-port time on …

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Kontainers’ digital platform expands to offer air freight and trucking

Freight software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider Kontainers has expanded the modal offering of its flagship Enterprise platform to include trucking and air freight for its largest customers.
The platform, which is designed for the largest freight forwarders and carriers, has been expanded beyond the ocean freight sector to include self-service instant rates, booking, customs, air freight, trucking, FCL/LCL, global schedules, B/Ls [bills of lading], chat support, dashboard analytics, payment system...

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Air cargo: don’t rest on your laurels, other modes are targeting your business

The net seems to be closing in on air cargo. The market is soft; trade is down. But there are other worries for this most fragile of industries. 
Other modes are coming for its business. Yesterday Russian Railways announced that cargo transport on its network between Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries rose 7% year-on-year between January and August. And it is eyeing more. The railway is offering 50% discounts on the transport of a …

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To ease post-Brexit congestion, ‘trailer traffic could be switched to containers’

UK container terminals and European shortsea box carriers have enough capacity to handle some 20% of Dover’s trailer traffic, should alarmist predictions of post-Brexit congestion at the ferry port materialise.
According to new research from Drewry, the cargo in some 250,000 of the 2.5m trailers that cross the Channel every year could, instead, be stuffed into containers, moved on containerships and handled at UK box terminals
“Switching to shortsea containers would be …

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